Show chemical research tn in america baw been retarded by tile the lack of public appreciation tills Is nn all indictment CAN of tile the intelligence of american Americ nn bomen ty 9 well ns as or of american men inon manifestly it la Is through the great evoi bomena av il lations that alint women will do tile their most effective work in remedying V Z as grievous notional fault mint tire anre the obvious first ali st stops steps first of oil all get tile the educators ors and scientists in your own communities community cs 2 in touch with the objective of your organization activity find out what bearing tile tho development of chemical research lifts has upon that objective whet whether tier it be national defense promotion of agriculture development of national resources promotion of public health or other civic or educational aducat ional activity www CY azz find out what research equipment find personnel in your community lity find state and in tile tho natian are devoted to tho the subjects in which you are arc interested third look into tho the educational systems or of your own community and ami 5 1 N message to t americ A asks them io recognize its 0 k in the bonic I 1 tills Is perhaps tile nub CHEMISTRY of it message to tile the worn wom on 0 of f tile alio united states in tile the form of n widely circulated plea that they assess fis sess anew tile tho value of tile intimate and unending service SO of chemistry to home community find and country the plea Is in tho the interests of tho the el chemical industry na as it a whole and where Is chemistry of more value than tha in ill the homo five of tile leading women of the united states have endorsed this message to tile the american women they are anro mrs fills herbert 1700 II ver wife of united states secretary of commerce IlO hoover vcr national prest president lent of tile girl scouts find and a college graduate in ill mining engineering mrs fills thomas 0 winter president of abo goal general al r federation of women olli which lias has a wide membership of club women miss maude wetmore chairman of vic womans comans department IL mt of the national civic federation alls ada L 1 comstock Coms tonk president of college find and president of tile american association of university women mrs airs george maynard minor prest dolit dent general of t lie daughters Daug liters of the fAni erlean li evolution plo pic like other used to make Is a 0 phrase to warm tile cackles cockles of it innas alls heart but mother always ways 9 make good plo pit and apparently the present generation of potential mothers Is not paying Il much liell vo volun lunar nry v attention to pie making or any anny other cooking there lins lifts been a shocking lock lack of good cooking lit in american homes hollies and good cooking ly 18 it foundation of tile homo home just q us as tile the homo home la Is a foundation of society tile the saying that a french flin family itly wit will I 1 livo ilvo well on what an american fum lly HY wastes Is far from being a joke and how Ilow can a 11 housewife Ouse wife intelligently ba handlo lidle tile Il many lilly things indispensable to tile the living of tile tho family without a 9 working knowledge of the why and wherefore of those things lings ti these live loading IL american women have signed n statement of approval which includes the following both tile plea pica and tho the statements upon which tile message inese age rests wo we have carefully considered and tin endorsed unanimously we ask tile the women of america to give a thoughtful reading to these pages to mako make them tile tile the subject of individual and organization discussion to form careful fill judgment on tile the bearing of tile subject upon their individual or organization interests tills this nation has fallen behind in tile the promotion of research in that branch of chemist chemistry ry upon which rests the preservation of health IlO alth tho the practice of medicine tho the diminution of waste from tile tho homo home find and industry by abe lie conversion of that waste into humanly usable products that brunch branch or of chemistry upon which rests tile the improvement prove pro men t find and increase in our food supplies the conservation of our resources through a wider and more effective utilization of df materials in in a word we have fallen short in the d domain r maln known as organic chemical re bearch within which lie ile an enormous baumber of the strategic places overlooking the strongholds strong olds holds of nature much Is to be gained by riveting j 0 AI I 1 KeY Stoia 2 sz 7 r 10 l 0 tile tho attention of american Americ tin women upon lipon 01 0 1 falt heretofore stilted stated that to bo be weak in organic chemistry Is to bo be benic ns as n notion nation in tile very heart of sell scientific adfle research and that S uch such wealch weal weakness cl s 1 Is it itself elf a e to tile the american public obviously tile tho reverse ae of this fact Is that tile the nation which belfitt belittles les or ignores tho importance of persistent skillful pursuit of knowledge knowl edgo t the ile nation willell which withholds fron from sound research tile material re resources so and om chil caal re recognition cognition essential to its sup port 7 nation will ile be outdistanced and nal outclassed by vic the nations which msp grasp the me astounding P present resent day big significance ance of tile the ancient doctrine knowledge knowledg 0 Is power tiro the nation that a a allows 0 itself thus thua to bo be outclassed and outdistanced in a type of re research lying nt at tile the ver very y heart of scientific research not only writes itself down a laggard in tile worlds principal harvest fields of kno knowledge w bcd lcd go and forfeits forfeit its claim to respect its as an equal bearer as aa well as an equal sharer lit in such harvest yields it imperils Im perils his its national independence if not its nat national lonal exist existence elleO for it Is nt at tile mercy of other nations for the skill needed to wrest from its own resources essentials of life health and weal wealth t it essentials efteni too of actual protection pron N in time or of conflict until a few years ago go there lips has been in tills country no corresponding supporting astl structure lecture for tile the or ganic chemists no industries whose constant demands for skilled research assured tile the cliel chemist ilist a living while lie he searched out from natures compounds their secrets of life health and human welfare support for such research was to bo be found only in overseas countries tries upon overseas chemists we had to depend for cor on an amazing number of absolute essentials essential S of life tile the story of liow how our few organic chemists under tinder tile the forced draft of tile war secured from our own soft coal all and other natural rp resources Sources tile the drugs drills dyes and other essentials of life ns as WOR well ns as in tile conduct of war tins lifts lost lose its novelty 1 but it t not its org organic 11 lit C C chemistry it eals underlies these industries built up ns as a result of tile conflict ns the entire science of chemistry underlies tile the development dc clop ment of our natural resources can call tile the women whoso choso activities center upon lunking tills nation secure in its peaceful development be wise or effective in their decisions and actions and ignore the needs and achievements of chemical research the women who are working for the nations peaceful security will find no more illuminating or enthralling subject of study than tile tho bearing of alic chemistry upon national defonso defense the growth and fruitage of organic I 1 X N 7 state to learn leap what place Is assigned in the curricula to chemistry organic find and inorganic and tint how much human 11 interest characterizes its teaching aching te fourth see what your local libraries have in the way of authority aut horita tive and interesting literature on organic chemistry fifth study carefully and decide for yourselves whether tile the org organic n nic ChO chemical MICal industries the manufacture of dyes drugs and tile the finer chemicals tire arc necessary ns as tin an assuTa assurance of 0 support of tile the american young men and women who may in 11 y be 1 induced nati C e 1 I t to 0 choose a career in the ahe field of organic chemistry as a result of your enlivening activities I 1 sixth when you have lave gathered tills information through gil group study ho be it remembered along tile the line ol 01 your group interests and activities take counsel with a other groups ol 01 0 women who have been studying the same su subject abject from their own angles of approach b tile lie men who aro are concerned and active in tile the development of organic chemistry find and tin an organic chemical personnel in america seventh seven th with WI t 11 tills this information and with tills this counsel formulate your own ideas its as to what national find and state policies es 8 should hould bo b 0 P put lit into effect for the surest development and maintenance ten tince of tin an american organic chemical pers personnel orinel adequate to our nation i til al needs eighth act in accordance with the judgment you have thus formed and demand of those opposing your course of fiction action a 11 clear explanation of the motive anti and grounds of their opposition |